Ror Pant ante Be 
Agropyrum. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 743 
subequal, lanceolate, linear or oblong, rigid, "aioe dome! 5- to many- 
nerved, usually somewhat asymmetrical, lves lanceolate to oblong 
a : 
or i lobed, densely ciliate. fe i aur, id 
oh villous top; styles hardly any; stigmas delicately 
ee Grain tightly enclosed and adhering to the valve and 
eile a or mai least to the latter, linear-oblong, plano- or — concavo- 
convex ; embryo short; hilum filiform as long as the grai 
pear with an Bee ten long creeping rhizome; blades fla . or convolute ; 
ligule rious; spik usually long and slender, rigid, rarely stout (in 
veal South African N oiaas spikelets adpressed to the rhaalitas usually rather 
s 30-35, mainly in the temperate region of Europe and Asia, 1 or 2 
widely. Piolo weeds, 
1. A. distichum (Beauv. Agrost. 146) ; perennial ; culms ascend- 
ing from a long creeping slender brane hed rhizome, 1-12 ft. high, 
stout, glabrous, smooth, closely sheathed all along, many-noded ; 
sheaths rather loose or ‘the upper tumid, smooth, eres somewhat 
ligules membranous, ae 11 lin. long; blades se auluiese e- 
convolute, subpunge ent, 3 t more than 1 ft. by as much as 3} lin. 
closely striate above, very m nutely and dens ely tomentose above ; 
spike erect, straight, very steak "3-6 in. long, of 3- -16 spikelets ; rhachis 
stout, very fragile ; internodes much shorter than the spikelets, 
mi 
mucronate with 2 lateral teeth, lowest 9-10 lin. long, subcoriaceous, 
smooth, 7-9. nerved, keeled in the upper one pales Seem 
minutely truncate , 62 -72 lin. by almost 3 lin. (when flat), v: 
finely velvety all over, keels broadly winged, wings densely catisteaet ; 
anthers 32 lin. long. Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 756. A. junceum, 
Durand & Schinz, hon Fl Afr. v. 935. Triticum junceum, var. 
macrostachyum, Nees, _Fi. Afr. Avietr. 366. T. distichum, Thunb. 
Prodr. 23; Fl. Cap, i. 440; ed. Schult. i. 119; Kunth, Enum. i. 
448, 
Coast Reeion: Cape Diy.; shore at Simons Town, towards Fish Hoek, 
Wolley Dod, 2061! Knysna Div.; between Groene Valley and Zwart Valley, 
Burchell, 5668! Uitenhage Div.; at the mouth of Van Stadens River, MacOwan, 
